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Autore: | Frost Elisabeth A |
Titolo: | The feminist avant-garde in American poetry [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
Disciplina: | 811.5099287 |
811/.5099287 | |
Soggetto topico: | American poetry - History and criticism - 20th century - United States |
Feminism and literature - History - 20th century - United States | |
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History - 20th century - United States | |
Women and literature - History - 20th Century | |
American poetry - History and criticism - Women authors | |
Experimental poetry, American - History and criticism | |
Feminist poetry, American - History and criticism | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Women Poets and the Historical Avant-Gardes; 1. "Replacing the Noun": Fetishism, Parody, and Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons; 2. "Crisis in Consciousness": Mina Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose"; Part II. Agendas of Race and Gender; 3. "a fo / real / revolu/shun": Sonia Sanchez and the Black Arts Movement; Part III. Traditions of Marginality; 4. "Unsettling" America: Susan Howe and Antinomian Tradition; 5. "Belatedly Beladied Blues": Hybrid Traditions in the Poetry of Harryette Mullen; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Permissions; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910's through the 1990's. Elisabeth Frost focuses on a diverse group of poets--Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Sonia Sanchez, Susan Howe, and Harryette Mullen--who make language the site of feminist politics. Her study captures the range of aesthetics and politics in the work of avant-garde women poets; challenges the ways in which avant-garde writing has been defined and categorized; expands traditional conceptions of feminism and feminist poetics; and addresses issues |
Titolo autorizzato: | The feminist avant-garde in American poetry |
ISBN: | 1-58729-434-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910783437203321 |
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